Fan works putting characters from well-known video game franchises, movies, and comic book seriesin hard-hitting grimdark storylines have been circulating the web since 2009.

A couple of rednecks put an end to an alien version of the Harlem Shake, proclaiming "This meme sucks!"

Last weekend at the a Python programmers conference, SendGrid employee Adria Richards tweeted about a group of devs who were joking about "big dongles" behind her during a session. Though staff took care of the situation, Twitter users discussed the events on Twitter, leading to SendGrid publicly firing Richards via Facebook today.

Brookshire, Texas resident Michelle Clark colorfully described her response to a hailstorm to Houston news channel KPRC earlier this week. News outlets are already calling her the next Sweet Brown or Antoine Dodson.

This is the most detailed map of the Internet ever made, according to the latest research paper Internet Census 2012 published by an anonymous hacker-researcher who built an extensive botnet with connections to at least 420,000 computers around the world for the mapping project.